shoot out

verb

1. to fight to the finish by shooting (esp in the phrase shoot it out )

noun

1. a conclusive gunfight

Example Sentences

Flames shoot out of the rocket launcher lighting up the Gobi Desert, which is then filled with a deafening roar.

From BBC

Between 1974 and ’82, she released six albums in tandem with her ex-husband, the master guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson, culminating in “Shoot Out the Lights,” a work consecrated by critics, in part because of its forensic dissection of the couple’s own crumbling marriage.

From New York Times

How many points is a shoot out?

From New York Times

Basone told The Times that filming was “like shooting a movie you shoot out of sequence, so honestly, if you’ve ever been on a set you understand, you just need to trust your producer and director and that’s just what we did. Plus we had a whole lotta fun shooting it and being on location.”

From Los Angeles Times

Superlong tentacles shoot out of their bodies and grab the chalk out of her hands; or brain control makes her think she is shrinking to the size of an ant when really she is normal.

From Literature

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